Spatial Comparisons of Poverty and Inequality in Living Standards in Malawi
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Spatial Comparisons of Poverty and Inequality in Living Standards in Malawi
The paper looks at poverty and inequality across areas in Malawi. The focus is on both monetary (consumption) and non monetary (health and education) dimensions of well being. Stochastic poverty dominance tests show that rural areas are poorer in the three dimensions regardless of poverty line chosen. Stochastic inequality dominance tests find that the north and south dominate the centre in hea...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Journal of Economics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0038-2280
DOI: 10.1111/saje.12013